Quotes about Perception
Jesus replied, “Go back and report to John what you hear and see:
- Matthew 11:4
As John’s disciples were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?
- Matthew 11:7
Otherwise, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Look, those who wear fine clothing are found in kings’ palaces.
- Matthew 11:8
What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
- Matthew 11:9
He who has ears, let him hear.
- Matthew 11:15
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’
- Matthew 11:18
He who has ears, let him hear.”
- Matthew 13:9
This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’
- Matthew 13:13
In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
- Matthew 13:14
But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
- Matthew 13:16
For truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.
- Matthew 13:17
Have you understood all these things?” “Yes,” they answered.
- Matthew 13:51